Have you ever "put together" a nice BU roll of something?

[James_OldeTowne]

For at least thirty years, my favorite date within the war-nickel series, for no particular reason that I can remember, has been the 1943-D. I gravitated toward that date very early on in my collecting pursuit, and maybe just due to inertia, it's remained my favorite.

 

Anyhow, I started putting together a complete roll of UNC examples starting... I dunno... maybe twenty years ago? It was just one of those weird thing where I began accidentally accumulating, and next thing I know, I'm inching toward forty pieces.

 

Fast forward to this weekend... and voila, I picked up the last two today, bring completion to the roll. Sorry - no pics - 'cuz it isn't really that exciting.

 

The funny thing is, I have no idea at all how much it cost me to do this, since I bought the majority of the coins when silver was cheap, and these cost maybe $.10 each (OK may be $.50 for BUs). That makes it a little frustrating to pay a couple of bucks each for the last few .

 

Kind of a silly little pursuit, but what rolls are you putting together?

 

Oh, and incidentally, I do still have two other rolls of coins in progress, but they are MUCH tougher than War Nickels !

 

Edited to add: I just remembered that a couple of years ago, I put together a really nice roll of 1949-S Franklins, but that wasn't quite the same. I was aggressively working on a roll more as a challenge than anything, although it turned out to be quite profitable. The 1943-D nickel roll was just a fun thing.

[WoodenJefferson]

A role of BU,1970-S Lincoln Cents...I thought they were small dates...NOT!

 

Rats...Well, it was 40 years ago!

[cpm9ball]

Not really anything that I worked on for a considerable length of time, but I do have 20,000 Westward Journey nickels (2004-2006) in tubes and rolls which includes 3 tubes of proofs for each year. I just like the fact that they changed the designs those three years.

 

Chris

[e1cnr]

If I calculated correctly, those 20,000 nickels weigh 220 pounds

 

 

I like war nickels as well - loved when silver was over $40/oz and these nickels were going for over $2/

 

Especially when you know the look and could pick up big lots of old Jeffersons on eBay rather cheaply

[coinman_23885]

I did this with MS65 NGC old holder Morgan Dollars. I think almost all of them were 1881-s with a sprinkling of maybe 1880s and 1882s. I like the coins because I thought they were premium quality for the grade. I still have a few.

[mkman123]

I think I tried to do this with 1/10th oz eagles but it costs too much so I gave up and just went and got coins I like.

[cpm9ball]

If I calculated correctly, those 20,000 nickels weigh 220 pounds

 

Yeah, they keep pulling my pants down when I put them in my pocket.

 

Chris

[johnny9434]

i have a bunch of rolls of the new buffalo nickels that came out a few years ago. thats about the size of that